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Do senior data and AI work for clients who will use it.

Our engagements are led from Chicago and staffed from a bench of vetted senior specialists, including people in Latin America, Europe and North Africa, on hours that overlap the US working day. Send your resume once. When an engagement matches what you do, a person calls you.

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The bench

Roles across all seven practices, and one standard for all of them

The same people deliver our own engagements and join client teams. Looking for employment rather than contract work? See full-time roles.

  • AI & GenAI engineers

    Generative AI & AI Agents

    Assistants, agents and retrieval systems, built for production.

  • Data engineers

    Data Engineering & Platforms

    Pipelines, lakehouses, streaming, migration and data quality.

  • Data scientists & ML engineers

    AI & Machine Learning

    Forecasting, detection and optimization models, deployed, monitored and retrained.

  • Data & AI architects

    Data Engineering & Platforms

    Platform and solution design, and the decisions that are costly to reverse.

  • BI & analytics engineers

    BI & Data Visualization

    Semantic models, dashboards and reporting automation.

  • Data & AI strategists

    Strategy & Governance

    Roadmaps, business cases and operating models, built with the people who will run them.

  • Governance & AI risk leads

    Strategy & Governance

    Stewardship, data quality rules, and AI risk frameworks such as the NIST AI RMF.

  • AI security specialists

    AI Security & Cyber Risk

    Threat modeling, testing and controls for AI systems and the data under them.

  • AI & data literacy facilitators

    AI & Data Literacy

    Role-based training in data and AI, designed and taught for people at work.

Not listed? These are a sample, not the limit. If your work is data or AI, apply and tell us about it in the note.

What we look for

  • Years in the workUsually seven or more, hands-on, in the work you would do for us, with tools you can name.
  • Work you can describeAt least one client engagement you can walk us through in detail.
  • English for client workYou will talk with client teams directly, so business-fluent English matters.
  • US hoursFor embedded work, at least four hours a day that overlap US business hours.

Full-time roles

Open full-time roles

Each open role is listed here with its own page: what the work is, where it is based, and how to apply.

None open right now. If you would consider a full-time role, apply below and choose "A full-time role" or "Either". We keep your application on file and contact you when a matching role opens.

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Apply to the bench

One application covers contract work and full-time roles. Your resume does most of the work; the questions here are the few it usually leaves out.

  • A person reviews every application.
  • We reply within ten business days.
  • We never add you to a mailing list.

We use AI to read resumes, and a person makes every decision. How we use AI on applications

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Notice

How we use AI on applications

We use an AI model to read resumes. It drafts a profile from yours: your skills, tools, industries, certifications and years of experience, and the practice your work fits best. A person checks that profile against your resume and makes every decision about your application.

  • The AI does not decide. It does not reject, rank or score applicants.
  • It ignores who you are. It is told never to record your age, gender, ethnicity, nationality, disability or family status, or to guess at the reasons for gaps in your work history.
  • You can opt out. Tick the box in the form, and a person reads your resume without AI. It makes no difference to how your application is treated.
  • You can ask. Reply to our confirmation email to see what we hold about you, correct it, or have it deleted.

Questions

Asked before people apply

Will I be an employee or a contractor?

Bench work is contract work, as an individual or through your own company, depending on where you are and the engagement. Full-time roles are employment, and are posted on this page when they open.

How are matches made?

By a person, against what the engagement needs: the practice, the tools, the industry and the hours. When there is a match, we call you first.

How long do you keep my application?

Up to two years. If you join the bench, we keep your profile while you are active and ask you to confirm it once a year. You can ask us to delete it at any time by replying to our confirmation email.

I am earlier in my career. Should I apply?

Most bench work needs senior people, so we place few earlier-career specialists. If you are close, apply and say so in the note.

Know someone who belongs on the bench?

Send them this page. Every application is read by a person, and the right people hear back.

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Senior data or AI specialist? Apply once; we call when an engagement matches.

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